Institute of Foundation Models and Inception42 Launch Jais 3: The World's Leading Arabic-Native AI for Speech, Writing and Agents
PR Newswire•15/10/2026•09:00 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤Jais 3 launches six open Arabic language models spanning 900 million to 375 billion parameters
- ➤Jais Speech leads compared models on Arabic speech recognition across six public test sets
- ➤Jais 3’s 7-billion model scores 79.6 versus 56.4 for K2 Horizon base
- ➤Jais 3 and Jais Speech available today on Hugging Face with vLLM and SGLang support
- ➤Cerebras Systems collaborated on Jais 3, but no financial terms were disclosed
Expert Statements
Haonan Li, Senior research scientist at IFM
“Arabic AI needs to understand the language in its everyday context, which varies by geography and across generations”
Haonan Li, Senior research scientist at IFM
“For example, we need to account for the many nuances in spoken Arabic, including when speakers slip into English or French mid-sentence and back again.”
Haonan Li, Senior research scientist at IFM
“We built Jais 3 for Arabic as it's really used.”
Dr. Larry Murray, SVP Applied Science at Inception42
“Jais 3 makes Arabic AI more practical for business use. Stronger reasoning and instruction following, combined with tool use, provide a foundation for multi-step agentic workflows. With open models across a range of sizes, organisations can match these capabilities to their computing budgets and deployment needs”
Richard Morton, Vice president and executive director of IFM
“Jais 3 brings deep Arabic understanding to speech, writing and agents”
Richard Morton, Vice president and executive director of IFM
“It is built for the way Arabic is spoken, the way it is written, and the work people need done in it.”
Ashish Koshy, CEO of Inception42
“Jais has defined what an Arabic large language model can be since the first release, and Jais 3 is the clearest step up yet”
Ashish Koshy, CEO of Inception42
“Building an Arabic LLM is not a translation exercise. It means training on the dialects people actually speak, the way they write, and the culture the language carries.”
Ashish Koshy, CEO of Inception42
“That is the work we and IFM have done together across every generation of Jais, and it is why, by bringing together 6 new models, Jais 3 now leads on Arabic across every model size we have built.”
Institute of Foundation Models and Inception42 Launch Jais 3: The World's Leading Arabic-Native AI for Speech, Writing and Agents PR Newswire
Built on IFM's K2 Horizon Fleet, Jais 3 Combines Leading Arabic AI Performance with Deep Cultural Understanding to Power Speech, Writing, and Agents
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